Flea Market Flowerts Sew Along - Week One!!

Flea Market Flowers 

BLOCK "M"

Welcome to Week One of the 

Flea Market Flowers 

Sew Along!

We are using my latest 

fabric collection called

Flea Market

It's designed by me ... 

and produced and distributed by the amazing 

Riley Blake Designs:)

We are making my quilt

FLEA MARKET FLOWERS

76" x 86"

We are using my 

PIE RULER

to make all of the flower petals...

This set of my 

CIRCLE RULERS

for all of the flower centers...

And we are also using my 

SEED RULERS

for all of the leaves in the quilt.

All of the other notions as well as fabric requirements are detailed within the 

Flea Market Flowers Sew Along Guide

CLICK HERE

for the free PDF Download

I also have a "Bee Prepared" blog post 

detailing everything that you will

 need to know about this sew along...

CLICK HERE

to go to that blog post 

if you have not read it 

or you need to be "refreshed"

 on any of the information!

As promised...

I did a video tutorial on my

 YouTube channel showing how to make 

Flea Market Flower 

BLOCK "M"

CLICK HERE

to go to that tutorial...

 so that you can make this cute flower!!

I detail everything step by step

 in my video along with cutting instructions.

Also...

remember that all of the cutting

for each print in this block is

 in your sew along guide as well:)

I hoped you liked my video! 

It was really fun to do it for you:) 

I just love how this flower turned out...

I think the patchwork center 

is really fun 

and many of these blocks 

would be a beautiful quilt as well!

I have not appliquéd my block

 or trimmed it up yet 

but I'm pretty sure that

 I am going to machine applique

 all of the blocks for this quilt.

Most of the time I hand applique 

but every once in a while

 I like to do it by machine

 and I think these blocks

 would be perfect for that.

A few months ago I did a video tutorial

 on how I machine applique

 and hand applique

CLICK HERE

if you would like to watch me!

I'll be using thread to match 

my appliqués 

which is what I always do 

whether by machine or by hand.

After applique the block is 

trimmed down to 

18 1/2" x 20 1/2"

It will finish at 18" x 20" 

after it is sewn into your quilt.

We will chat about trimming 

blocks down in the next week or two:)

Flea Market Flowers 

BLOCK "L"

is anothe one that I am doing

 a tutorial for this week as well.

Please remember that I have asked you 

NOT to cut any of the flowers ahead of time

 (so that no mistakes are made and also

 there are a few speciality cuts)

I will be showing you how to cut the

 flowers for each block as I do each tutorial.

For BLOCK "L" you will need to make

 two - 6 1/2" Flowers

so that means you will need to cut 32 petals.

You will need a little bit more than two

 3" x 21" strips to get all 32 petals cut.

Lay your ruler on the fabric strips between the

 4 1/2" and 7 1/2" lines 

that are marked as dashes on the Pie Ruler.

I cut them exactly the same way that I showed you

 in the video for BLOCK "M" ...

just different size strip height and

 different placement of the Pie Ruler.

I have all of my other fabrics cut for

 the block and my Sew-In Interfacing traced.

1 - 2" Circle

2 - 4" Circles

4 - Small Leaves

I cut my 1/4" prepared straight bias strip

 6 1/2" long

I cut my background 

10" x 20"

This is what a cute little 

6 1/2" flower looks like:)

By the way...

6 1/2" is the smallest sized flower that

 we will be making for the quilt.

No matter what size flower we are making...

they are all sewn the exact same way

 that I showed you in the video.

Here is a close up view of the back of a

 6 1/2" Flea Market Flower.

A close up view of sewing my leaves!

Okay...all shapes are:

1. Sewn 

2. Trimmed

3. Turned

4. Shaped

5. Pressed

Although in this photo I

 had only sewn one of my flowers:)

I pressed my background in half BOTH ways

 so that I had a crease in the fabric to center my design on.

I layed out the flowers and pinned

 onto my background using

 the design board underneath.

I did this the exact same way

 that I show in my video:)

After pinning I used the Sue Glue and 

removed the pins after the glue dried.

From tip to tip of the two flowers 

it measures 17" long

and the width of leaves and flowers

 are 6 1/2" wide.

Flea Market Flowers

BLOCK "L" is all ready for applique!

It will finish at 8" x 18" 

when sewn into the quilt.

After I have done my applique I will

 trim it down to 8 1/2" x 18 1/2"

I really love the light 

colored centers in these flowers...

so sweet!!

Okay! 

So that is it for the tutorials today...

two blocks down and fourteen more to go.

This is going to be fun!!

Have fun planting your flowers...

I'll meet you right back here next week for

 Flea Market Flower Blocks "N" and "O"

Chat with you later!!

xx

Lori